Fiscal implications of global decarbonization
Internationally coordinated climate mitigation policies can effectively put the world on a path toward achieving the agreed Paris temperature goals. Such coordination could be initiated by large players,
China
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Land of the Free
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New lands of the free
New lands of the fat?
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Bad feed
Let us now consider the larger terrain in which the results of the surveys must be understood. It is clear that from the mid-1970s onwards, nutrition
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India's nutritional puzzle
From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people’s diets are out of joint. The nutritional value of the food people consume daily today is alarmingly off what the body requires to
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Three Gorges Dam
The last gap in China's controversial Three Gorges Dam has been plugged, making the world's largest hydroelectric power project a reality. By 2009, the area will turn into a 560-kilometre lake, after
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Fortification plans
China is tightening norms toprotect scientific and technological research within its boundaries. The country's ministry of science and technology wants all public and private organisations involved
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Smart alien s relentless strike
SARS motivates researchers to redefine space invasion
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No case for a multilateral framework
<font class='UCASE'>Nagesh Kumar</font> , director general of Research and Information Systems on Non Aligned and Developing Countries, a development research organisation, talks to <font class='UCASE'>Clifford Polycarp</font> about investment issues in
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Global estimates of water withdrawals and availability under current and future “business-asusual” conditions
New global models provide the opportunity to generate quantitative information about the world water situation. Here the WaterGAP 2 model is used to compute globally comprehensive estimates about water
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Dividing genes
The Great Wall of China, built to hinder marauding tribes, hampers the flow of plant genes too. Members of the same species growing on either side are genetically quite different, indicates a new